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• Correlation of Tumor Volume of Childhood Posterior Fossa Tumors with Outcome. MPhil degree (Research) in Clinical Neuroscience [Ref:CRAVENKF, ID:742904,1st Feb 2005 – 31st Jan 2007] at the University of Birmingham.

• Society of British Neurological SurgeonsRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• General Medical Council
• International Federation of Neuroendoscopy
• International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Athens Medical Association

• Surgery Research and Practice, Hindawi Pub. Co

• Consultant Neurosurgeon at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, U.K.

Specialist Registrar in Neurosurgery at West Midlands Deanery – 6 years, England:

• University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
• Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust.
• University Hospital of Coventry & Warwickshire.
• University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

Basic Surgical Training and Experience – 4 years

• Senior House Officer in Neurosurgery at Middlesbrough General Hospital, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England.
• Senior House Officer in ENT at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust and
• Senior House Officer in Orthopaedics at University Hospital of Hartlepool, UK.
• Senior House Officer in General Surgery, Thriasio Hospital, GR.

Clinical Interest:

• Brain and Skull base tumors
• Spinal cord tumors
• Meningiomas
• Gliomas
• Hydrocephalus
• Neck and Low back pain
• Sciatica
• Neuroendoscopy
• Neuronavigation
• Stereotactic neurosurgery
• Brain Radiosurgery: γ-Knife
• Chiari malformations
• Syrigomyelia
• Trigeminal Neuralgia

Research Interest:

• Brain tumors
• Medulloblastoma
• CSF disorders
• Hydrocephalus
• Neuroendoscopy

• 1st prize for monograph: Cancer and the Immune System of the Host in the award competition of Professor C. Wastell MS, FRCS. Medical School of University of Crete, in 1994.

• The Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts. Kombogiorgas D. Nova Science Pub Inc., New York, USA, 2016. ISBN: 97816334844574.
• The Medulloblastoma Book. Kombogiorgas D. Nova Science Pub Inc., New York, USA, 2014. ISBN-10: 1631171909.
• Medulloblastoma. Kombogiorgas D. In: Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, 2017. ISBN 9780128093245.
• Introduction to Medulloblastoma. Kombogiorgas D. In: The Medulloblastoma Book pp:1-12. Nova Science Pub Inc, New York, USA, 2014. ISBN-10: 1631171909.
• Surgical Treatment of Medulloblastoma. Puget S, Kombogiorgas D, Blauwblomme T, Zerah M, Sainte-Rose C. In: The Medulloblastoma Book. pp:63-76. Nova Science Pub Inc, New York, USA, 2014. ISBN-10: 1631171909.
• Types and Components of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts. Kombogiorgas D. In: The Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts. Nova Science Pub Inc., New York, USA, 2016. ISBN:97816334844574.

• Walsh AR, Kombogiorgas D. Coiled ventricular – peritoneal shunt within the scrotum. Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2004;40(5):257-258.
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. Infantile clival chordoma without clivus involvement. Childs Nerv Syst 2006 Oct;22(10):1369-74
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. Assessment of the influence of operative factors in the Success of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Children. Childs Nerv Syst 2006 Oct;22(10):1256-62.
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. The Pott puffy tumor revisited: neurosurgical implications of this unforgotten entity. Case report and review of the literature. J Neurosurg. 2006 Aug;105(2):143-9. Review.
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. Outcome of children with posterior fossa medulloblastoma. A single institution experience over the decade 1994-2003. Childs Nerv Syst. 2007 Apr;23(4):399-405.
• Peet AC, Davies NP, Ridley L, Brundler MA, Kombogiorgas D, et al. Key differences are detected in the primary tumours of medulloblastoma by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Eur J Cancer. 2007 Apr;43(6):1037-44.
• Kombogiorgas D., et al. Suppurative intracranial complications of sinusitis in adolescence. Single institute experience and review of literature. Br J Neurosurg. 2007;21(6):603-609.
• Pati S, Kombogiorgas D, et al. Spontaneous extra-axial intracranial hemorrhage followed by thrombosis in congenital afibrinogenemia: perioperative management of this rare combination. Surg Neurol. 2009 Jun;71(6):689-92
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. Predictive value of preoperative ventricular volume on the need for permanent hydrocephalus treatment immediately after resection of posterior fossa medulloblastomas in children. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics. 2008 Jun;1(6):451-5.
• Kombogiorgas D, et al. Appraisal of the current staging system for the residual medulloblastoma by volumetric analysis. Childs Nerv Syst. 2011;27(12): 2101-2106.